Price
- £6.00
Length
- 60
Presented By
- LITFEST
VENUE: The Gallery, The Dukes
Welcome to our Philosophy Café to discuss ‘the big questions in philosophy’ with Anthony
McGowan, best-selling and hugely entertaining popular philosophy author of How to Teach
Philosophy to Your Dog. We will be taking a mental Socratic stroll, while sitting in the warm with a cup of good coffee or tea. Come and join us. ‘Philosophy’ he says, ‘has an oddly hybrid nature – it’s less of a purebred Afghan, and more of a Labradoodle…’ But Monty, his Maltese terrier, often has other ideas.
How to Teach Philosophy to Your Dog is:
‘Hugely entertaining and accessible; there can’t have been more delightful exponents of Socratic dialogue than McGowan and Monty, his scruffy and evidently delightful Maltese terrier’ Tom Holland, New Statesman Best Books of the Year
‘For essential reading on both the meaning of dogs and the meaning of life, I can recommend Anthony McGowan’s wonderful book How to Teach Philosophy to Your Dog, a series of conversations he had with his dog, Monty, while out walking together’ John Crace, Guardian
Anthony McGowan is the author of more than forty books. His recent work includes The Knife that Killed Me, a YA novel that was made into a film; The Art of Failing, a humorous account of the writer’s life; and Lark, the culmination of his YA quartet, ‘The Truth of Things’ (including Brock, Pike and Rook), which won the 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal.
AGE GUIDANCE: 12+
